Aggregates demand prompts excavator monitoring sales
The excavator monitoring systems can be used both on land and on board dredging pontoons.
Dutch company Martens en Van Oord has awarded Reson the contract to deliver and install two excavator monitoring systems.
Both excavators are equipped with rotatable clamshells which are mounted on an extended stick. The inclination of the extendable stick and rotation are both measured and visualized real-time in combination with the standard boom/stick visualisation.
The excavators are mainly used for land dredging applications but, as they are equipped as stand alone systems, they can also be placed on a pontoon for dredging on rivers and in harbors.
The installation was performed by the Liebherr dealer at Hoogerheide in the Netherlands, with calibration and training was performed by Reson staff. The delivery comprises a full set of Reson potmeters, clamshell sensors, heading sensors, the Reson interface and the PDS2000-Excavator software. Both systems are delivered and fully operational.
In the second half of this year Martens and Van Oord Moerdijk will install a classifier system for sand and gravel operations at Moerdijk. This classifier system is part of a large, 12 hectare bulk terminal plant which the company is developing in collaboration with 50% subsidiary Overslagbedrijf Moerdijk.
The classifier system is especially designed to classify sand and gravel as high quality building materials. It may also be suitable for cleaning materials such as railway ballast. This autumn Martens en Van Oord will start work on the floor of the Meuse between Grave and Gennep, for which approximately 2m m³ of sand and gravel will be required.
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